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The dogtrot, also known as a breezeway house, dog-run, or possum-trot, is a style of house that was common throughout the Southeastern United States during the 19th and early 20th centuries. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Some theories place its origins in the southern Appalachian Mountains .
This is a list of plantations and/or plantation houses in the U.S. state of Alabama that are National Historic Landmarks, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, listed on the Alabama Register of Landmarks and Heritage, or are otherwise significant for their history, association with significant events or people, or their architecture and design.
The Augusta Sledge House, also known as the Morrisette-Tunstall-Sledge House, was a historic plantation house and historic district near Newbern, Alabama, USA.The main house was built in 1855 and is an example of the cottage orné style, which was at the height of its popularity in the mid-19th century.
Slave house with a sugar kettle in the foreground at Woodland Plantation in West Pointe a la Hache, Louisiana. Houses for enslaved people were often of the most basic construction. Meant for little more than sleeping, they were usually rough log or frame one-room cabins; early examples often had chimneys made of clay and sticks.
Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, first church of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. when he began his work as a national civil rights activist, in 1955 with the Montgomery bus boycott in Montgomery Gaineswood in Demopolis Clark Hall in the Gorgas–Manly Historic District on the University of Alabama campus Tannehill Ironworks in Tuscaloosa ...
Barrington Hall is one classic example of an antebellum home.. Antebellum architecture (from Antebellum South, Latin for "pre-war") is the neoclassical architectural style characteristic of the 19th-century Southern United States, especially the Deep South, from after the birth of the United States with the American Revolution, to the start of the American Civil War. [1]
House Oldest building in the city of Decatur. [33] Collins-Marston House: Mobile: 1832 House Possibly the state's oldest surviving example of a creole cottage style house. [34] Old State Bank: Decatur: 1833 Bank The first state bank and oldest bank building in the state. [30] Barton Academy: Mobile: 1836 School The first public school in the ...
It was a common form for many early plantation houses and town houses alike in the lower reaches of Alabama, Louisiana, and Mississippi. [15] Gaineswood in Demopolis, Alabama, built from 1843 to 1861. Designed by its owner from pattern books, it is a Greek Revival with Italianate-influenced asymmetrical massing.